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“Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,/That they behold, and see not what they see? “
Shakespeare Sonnet #137 SONNET 137 Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold, and see not what they see? They know what beauty is, see where it lies, Yet what the best is take the … Continue reading
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“…Timon of Athens is a puzzle. Is it a tragedy? It is the strangest of Shakespeare’s plays.”
Timon of Athens Act Five By Dennis Abrams ————————– Act Five: The Poet and the Painter head out to the forest in hope of payment, but Timon drives them away. By this time Alcibiades is threatening Athens itself, and two … Continue reading
“There’s nothing level in our cursed natures,/But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr’d /All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!”
Timon of Athens Act Four By Dennis Abrams ——————————– Act Four: Although his servants remain loyal to him, Timon is now driven insane with anger; he curses the city and its residents, and leaves to lives in the woods. While … Continue reading
“No care, no stop; no senseless of expense/That he will neither know how to maintain it/Nor case his flow of riot”
Timon of Athens Act Two By Dennis Abrams ———————– Act Two: Timon’s creditors are getting restless and send their servants to request that he pay off his debts. Flavius is attempting to stall them when Timon appears and demands to … Continue reading
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“His promises fly so beyond his state/That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes/For every word.”
Timon of Athens Act One By Dennis Abrams —————- MAJOR CHARACTERS Lord Timon of Athens Lords and Senators of Athens Timon’s false friends: Lucius, Lucullus, Sempronius and Ventidus Alcibiades, an Athenian soldier Apemantus, an ill-tempered philosopher Servants of Timon’s various … Continue reading
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If Timon is timeless, it is because it is always timely. The brilliance of the play is the way in which its self-serving and hypocritical flatterers resemble those of every economic and social era”
Timon of Athens An Introduction By Dennis Abrams ——- It’s a story as old as money itself: the fable of the big-spending man who uses, then loses all of his wealth – and with it, his wits and everything he … Continue reading
“Make but my name thy love, and love that still,/And then thou lovest me, for my name is ‘Will.’”
Shakespeare Sonnet #136 SONNET 136 If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near, Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy ‘Will,’ And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there; Thus far for love my love-suit, sweet, … Continue reading
“All yet seems well…”
All’s Well That Ends Well Act Five, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ——————————– To conclude our examination of this most problematic of plays, All’s Well That Ends Well, I’d like to start with this from A.D. Nuttall’s Shakespeare The Thinker, … Continue reading
“Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.”
All’s Well That Ends Well Act Four By Dennis Abrams ———————————————– Act Four: The two plots move forward. Disguised as enemy soldiers, the Dumaine brothers ambush Parolles and interrogate him. When he nonchalantly slanders his comrades, they remove his blindfold … Continue reading
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“When thou can’st get the ring upon my finger, which never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to, then call me husband, but in such a ‘then’ I write a ‘never.’”
All’s Well That Ends Well Act Three By Dennis Abrams ——————————— Act Three: The Countess’s delight on hearing the news of the marriage quickly turns sour when she receives a letter from Bertram declaring that he has fled. Helena announces … Continue reading
